Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Before the recreated titles to The Night Before Christmas were made in 2006, this version was the standard one. I was reminded how odd its opening titles look by Mitchell Hang, who also sent me this transfer. It starts with a Buena Vista logo and fanfare that suggest a mid-1960s theatrical reissue, but then the Silly Symphony logo is the 1937 version, which had not been used since the re-release of Three Little Pigs in 1948. This has been a mystery to me for many years. When were these titles made? Was it a non-theatrical reissue first, and then the same version was used theatrically with the BV logo added? I have found no records of it being reissued, in any form, in the 1950s or 1960s.
Before the recreated titles to The Night Before Christmas were made in 2006, this version was the standard one. I was reminded how odd its opening titles look by Mitchell Hang, who also sent me this transfer. It starts with a Buena Vista logo and fanfare that suggest a mid-1960s theatrical reissue, but then the Silly Symphony logo is the 1937 version, which had not been used since the re-release of Three Little Pigs in 1948. This has been a mystery to me for many years. When were these titles made? Was it a non-theatrical reissue first, and then the same version was used theatrically with the BV logo added? I have found no records of it being reissued, in any form, in the 1950s or 1960s.
